Quotes from Donald Whitney

And to the degree we truly comprehend more of God, we will in turn respond to Him more in worship. That's why all worship of God—public, family,[1] and private worship—should be based upon and include much of the Bible.

Without absorption of the water of God's Word, there's no quenching our spiritual thirst. Meditation is the means of absorption.

Pray over the Scriptures. Christians just setting out on the path of prayer sometimes pray for everything they can think of, glance at their watches, and discover they have been at it for all of three or four minutes. This experience sometimes generates feelings of defeat, discouragement, even despair. A great way to begin to overcome this problem is to pray through various biblical passages.

In most Christian circles you will rarely hear fasting mentioned, and few will have read anything about it. And yet it's mentioned in Scripture more times even than something as important as baptism (about seventy-seven times for fasting to seventy-five for baptism).

Discipline without direction is drudgery.

But the main reason why the psalms work so well in prayer is that the very purpose God put them in his Word to us is for us to put them in our words to him.

Thus no other object on earth is as valuable as the Bible, for nothing else can provide anything as essential or eternal.

If you are a Christian, two people live in your body - you and the Holy Spirit...And the Holy Spirit is not passive within you.

Without a clear biblical purpose, fasting becomes an end in itself.

To read the Bible and not to meditate was seen as an unfruitful exercise: better to read one chapter and meditate afterward than to read several chapters and not to meditate.

Sixth, the Spiritual Disciplines are means, not ends. The end—that is, the purpose of practicing the Disciplines—is godliness.

So while we cannot be godly without the practice of the Disciplines, we can practice the Disciplines without being godly if we see them as ends and not means.